Word: motion
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...prevail. As the situation in Little Havana grew more tense, Attorney General Janet Reno sought to get Elian to a neutral site. The Miami relatives were unwilling to give him up. At 4 a.m. on April 22, Reno was in phone negotiations with the family, having already put in motion a raid to seize Elian. At 5 a.m. federal agents moved in, powered past 50 protesters and moved swiftly through the house. The boy was found in the arms of Donato Dalrymple, one of his fisherman rescuers, and was taken without violent incident. He was flown to the nation...
...Last year, sales from the week following Dec. 25 topped sales from Thanksgiving weekend, the season's traditional apex. And this time around, the discounting has already been set in motion by a season of relative slump. So bargains should be plentiful - along with bargain-hunters, for whom that ill-fitting plaid sweater is the perfect excuse to remedy Christmas gift oversights. Profit margins, however, will be slim...
...wizard has slipped beyond her control; he is out there, everywhere, and legions of people feel a sense of ownership. But in the most important way, Harry still belongs to her. His future is in her head, as is that of the entire fictional universe she has set in motion...
...Gusmorino-Lee website, which included music and full motion Flash animation, left other candidates scrambling to liven up their own Internet pretences. Smith's webmaster spent eight hours last Wednesday adding Flash animation to Smith's website. Likewise, other campaigns, including Smith's, began campaigning at Loker Commons' Fly-By a day after Gusmorino's volunteers handed out more than 300 flyers during lunch...
...when you're in an airport, several companies make fancy motion-sensor alarms that beep distressingly if someone tries to walk off with your machine (for example, while you're in a phone booth). The winner here is the Defcon 3 ($129), a laptop case from Targus that has a motion alarm built in. As a Targus representative puts it, the Defcon 3 is "a sexy unit"; no less studly a geek than Harry Connick Jr. carries...